Software Test Technical Specialist, AD/ADAS

Team: AD/ADAS

Location: Tokyo

Commitment: Employee

Workplace Type: hybrid

TEAM

The AD/ADAS group at Woven by Toyota is developing a scalable, data-driven approach to autonomous and assisted driving. Our AV Performance Team develops strategies and executes testing globally for Toyota’s Personally Owned Vehicle (POV). Team members include testing experts that build, execute and refine test methods - in simulation, closed course, and real world environments - enabling data driven decisions about the functions we develop and their integrated performance. The testing feedback from our team is critical to accelerating vehicle development and delivering production-ready solutions based on cutting edge research and development in the domain.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Our Product Delivery organization is looking for a Software Test Technical Specialist that is passionate about building robust, scalable, and automated software validation methods for AD/ADAS systems. This individual will be responsible for defining and executing test strategies that validate software interfaces, input/output behavior, state transitions, and interactions between components.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Define and lead software component-level test strategy
Develop component and component group test cases
Establish automated testing in CI/CD pipelines
Improve requirements and testability
Drive failure mode and edge-case validation

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The following skills and experience are required.
5+ years of AD/ADAS software testing experience
Strong software testing experience
Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and automating tests for software components, APIs, or embedded software
Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills, with experience interpreting logs, traces and system behavior to resolve software issues
Programming skills for test automation
Experience developing test scripts, test harnesses, or test tools using Python, C++, or similar programming languages
Understanding of software interfaces and system behavior
Ability to understand API specifications, data flows, state transitions, and sequence diagrams, and to design input/output-based tests and component interaction tests
Ability to work cross-functionally
Ability to work independently across multiple teams, manage ambiguity, and drive alignment on testing scope and acceptance criteria with Product, Systems Engineering, and Development stakeholders
Experience with CI/CD and automated regression testing
Practical experience with automated testing, regression testing, and continuous integration environments using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
Japanese and English reading, writing, and communication skills

NICE TO HAVES

Experience with automotive software standards or processes
Understanding of automotive software development and safety-related processes such as ISO 26262, ASPICE, AUTOSAR, MISRA, or SOTIF
Familiarity with requirements management tools like JAMA
Experience with simulation, SIL, HIL, or vehicle testing
Experience in development or validation of AD/ADAS areas such as perception, prediction, planning, control, sensor fusion, or driver assistance features
Experience with automotive software standards or processes
Experience validating software using SIL/HIL environments, simulation platforms, log replay, or vehicle testing
Technical leadership as an individual contributor
Experience technically leading test architecture, test strategy, or quality improvement initiatives as an individual contributor rather than as a people manager
Knowledge of ML model evaluation
Knowledge or experience evaluating machine learning models, including performance metrics, dataset quality, edge-case analysis, regression evaluation, and model behavior validation in safety-critical systems